Allah (God)

Clas­si­cal Islam­ic Argu­ments for the Exis­tence of God

After Wensinck’s bril­liant study, a fresh exam­i­na­tion of the argu­ment for the exis­tence of God in Islam might appear imper­ti­nent. Some jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the present dis­cus­sion, how­ev­er, may be found in the fact that some of the mate­r­i­al on which this study is based was not avail­able to Wensinck, when his mono­graph appeared in 1936, and in the slight­ly dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tion of cer­tain rel­e­vant data here attempted.

Ahad(un) and the Mis­sion­ary’s Folly

Mod­ern Sci­ence Finds God

In This Category

Do Mus­lims Real­ly Wor­ship Allah The Moon God ?

Chris­tians who try to claim that the word Allah (Ara­bic : الله) is the name of the moon god are influ­enced by the writ­ings of Dr. Robert Morey, who wrote this alleg­ing that a stat­ue at Hazor rep­re­sents Allah.

Allah is the​“Rim­mon” of Syr­ia ? A Reply to Chris­t­ian Mendacity

A mis­sion­ary under the Yahoo ! Groups nome de plume of Patri­ot Tim” has made an alle­ga­tion in a dis­cus­sion group by stat­ing that the Syr­i­an pagan idol RIMMON () as men­tioned in 2 Kings 5:18 is the same Deity as for the Mus­lims, who some­times call upon God as ar-rah­man (The Mer­ci­ful).

Maa­lik vs Mol­e­ch : The Mis­sion­ary Name-Game

Among the litany of crimes Chris­tians accuse Mus­lims of com­mit­ting, the wor­ship of so-called pagan” deities is a major one. There is the claim…

Robert Morey’s Decep­tive Methods

Adapt­ed from Com­mon Ques­tions Peo­ple Ask About Islam by Shab­bir Ally Ques­tion 7 : Dr. Robert Morey proves in his book that Allah is the name…

The Word​“Elo­him” in the Hebrew Qur’an : Lin­guis­tic and The­o­log­i­cal Parallels

One of the recur­ring claims made by Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies is that Mus­lims wor­ship a fun­da­men­tal­ly dif­fer­ent deity, often hing­ing on the assumption…

Is Yah­weh​“Divine Name” For God ?

When Mus­lims con­front the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies with the ety­mo­log­i­cal evi­dence that the word Allah is indeed relat­ed to the word Elo­him, the mis­sion­ar­ies are…

The Con­cept of Tawhid in Islam

Mean­ing of Tawhid The word Tawhid comes from the verb wah­had which lit­er­al­ly means to unite. In Islam­ic ter­mi­nol­o­gy, it means to real­ize and maintain…

Lat­est articles

Did al-Zuṭṭ Ride Muham­mad ? A Crit­i­cal Philo­log­i­cal Reassess­ment of a Mod­ern Anti-Islam Polemic

This study dis­man­tles the al-zuṭṭ hadith polemic through close read­ing, lex­i­cog­ra­phy, and nar­ra­tive con­trol. By restor­ing con­text to yark­abūn, exam­in­ing trans­mis­sion vari­ants, and com­par­ing Semit­ic par­al­lels, it shows how innu­en­do trans­la­tion exploits pol­y­se­my, sup­press­es clo­sure, and man­u­fac­tures scan­dal with­out his­tor­i­cal war­rant with­in dis­ci­plined philol­o­gy and sober method­olog­i­cal lim­its alone here

State of Flux : Con­test­ed Doc­trines in Ear­ly Christianity

Ear­ly Chris­tian­i­ty lacked a sin­gle, uni­fied the­ol­o­gy. This arti­cle shows how lat­er ortho­doxy” emerged through his­tor­i­cal con­sol­i­da­tion rather than orig­i­nal consensus.

The Death of Muham­mad ﷺ : Poi­son, Prophet­hood, and the Mis­read­ing of Sources

The death of Muham­mad ﷺ exam­ined through Qur’anic lan­guage, hadith con­text, and his­to­ry, expos­ing how poi­son claims rely on mis­read­ing sources.